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Public Cloud72%

Private Cloud27%

Which tech conference do you intend to attend in person next year or have already participated in this year, and what motivated your choice?

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What methodologies or frameworks (like NIST CSF, CMMC, etc.) are you using to assess and track your cybersecurity maturity level?

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What's a quick win for optimizing spend? What's been your focus or "lowest hanging fruit"?

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What is the most interesting/helpful/unique tool you're using right now that no one is talking about?

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What headline-trend or buzzword makes you cringe the most?

Big Data16%

Remote Work19%

Microservices / Containerization13%

CI / CD7%

Zero-Trust15%

Automation2%

Digital Transformation17%

Cloud / Cloud Native2%

DevOps or DevSecOps3%

Other (comment)1%

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Which CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solutions are you currently using for your business!? What are their Pros & Cons!?

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What is the primary way your organization anticipates using AI agents within the next 12-18 months?

To automate routine tasks and workflows (e.g., scheduling, data entry, basic customer/patient service inquiries)25%

To enhance decision-making through advanced analytics and insights generation (e.g., risk assessment, market forecasting)44%

To create new products, services, or customer/patient experiences (e.g., personalized recommendations, virtual assistants)21%

To improve cybersecurity and fraud detection (e.g., threat analysis, anomaly detection)10%

We are not currently planning to implement AI agents within the next 12-18 months

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Is there an online course/training/program that has really made a huge impact on you and your career?

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What activities do you do to measure the value of sending your team to training?

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What are your biggest challenges in handling consumer data with respect to data privacy and security and what tools and processes help you manage these?

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How do you see AI benefiting IT departments and managed IT services provider in the future? Will it eliminate jobs or shift jobs in positions to work with AI?

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The cloud vendor bill is just line items on compute/storage/network spend. Are there tools to go beyond the surface and help understand the costs, and optimize cloud consumption? (Note this is not a question of cost saving in the cloud, I have seen the Q&A on that topic in the forums).

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I work for an electrical grid operator (MISO) and my company is looking to completely revamp the control room display to modernize the tech. stack and increase the situational awareness of the operators. Looking for recommendations of what other companies out there (not necessarily in energy sector) would have a state of art control centers, so that we could potentially have a conversation about the architectural approach, integrations, etc.

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Our organization is implementing an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to enable self-service infrastructure provisioning, and we're evaluating Terraform Cloud workspace management strategies. We're debating between: - VCS-driven approach: Repository-based workspace management with GitOps workflows - API-driven approach: Programmatic workspace creation and management via Terraform Cloud APIs Specific Questions: - Which approach have you found more effective for true self-service at scale? - How do these approaches handle multi-tenancy and isolation requirements? - What integration challenges did you encounter with developer portals/service catalogs? - How did your choice impact developer adoption and platform team operational overhead? Would love to hear about your real-world experiences, particularly around the trade-offs you discovered post-implementation.

Our business is in financial services and we are on the cross roads on rejuvenating the server of our core Oracle database. Previously we are using an Oracle's SPARC (Solaris) server, but we got some signals that several of our peers in industry have moved out from Solaris SPARC based server to modern x86 servers. What do you think on the future of Solaris SPARC? Is it still a worthy investment? And do you think their RAS (reliability, availability, scalability) selling point, is still significantly relevant differentiation with x86 modern server?